THE KASSITE CYLINDERS. 189 
The flying bird appears as the important element in other seals of this general 
Kassite class. Such are fig. 532, an unusual green feldspar (Amazon stone) cylinder, 
and fig. 533. In fig. 534 two gods are represented, each of them with a scimitar but 
one of them has his leg protruded and the knee bent, as in the figure of Shamash, 
although the low conventional mountain, which is his footstool, is not drawn. The 
inscription would seem in this case to indicate the two gods, and is thus translated 
by Oppert: 
God... Master of the gods 
Thou God... of the gods of life, 
Who makest the sun helpful 
Proclaim his glory. 



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The “Master of the gods”? would be Marduk, and the second deity is indicated as 
Shamash. 
Occasionally these cylinders give us the figure of a seated god. We have such 
a case In fig. 535. Here a column, that of Marduk, stands before the god and may 
suggest again that he is the god represented. Above it is what may be a suggestion 
of the winged disk, although we should hardly ; 
expect the disk at this period, and above are 
three crosses. ‘The inscription reads: 

O goddess Belit, the exalted, 
Thou hast made, thou hast named him, 
Grant (him) favor, 
Guard (him), protect (him) 
And spare him (for a long life) : 
Thy Servant who deeply reverences thee.—Price. 

Another cylinder which has some peculiar features is shown in fig. 536. Here the 
seated god holds in his hand a stalk of durra, the Egyptian wheat, to be presented 
as the bread of life to the worshiper; and opposite him stands a goddess, like Aa, 
and in this case the breasts are distinct, which is not to be expected at an earlier 
period. In the frieze above are two bulls lying down, one each side of what may 
possibly be a so-called sacred tree. It is an emblem not easily identified. The 
bulls appear to be of the humped variety, which we do not see before this period. 
We might naturally expect the seated god to be Shamash, and here the presence of 
Aa favors the identification, although the grain in his hand is not specially his. 
The inscription is interesting. It reads: 
Menaruptum, 
Daughter of Bazi. 
Lady of Nabu-dayan, 
Handmaid of (god) Shamash, 
Lady of (god) Adad.—Parice. 
